Day: March 7, 2024

State of the Union Open Thread debt limit

State of the Union Open Thread

Jaybird March 7, 2024

The State of the Union is strong, of course.

Weekend Plans Post: Prep (Maybe) For The Eclipse back2

Weekend Plans Post: Prep (Maybe) For The Eclipse

Jaybird March 7, 2024

Totality is a time machine to prehistory.

Nikki Haley Is Out and the GOP Migration Begins

David Thornton March 7, 2024

An old Southern saying opines “In the South, we don’t hide crazy. We put it on...

From The Council on Criminal Justice: Did Violent Crime Go Up or Down Last Year? Yes, It Did. 33064113863_fcc3b59b62_gavel

From The Council on Criminal Justice: Did Violent Crime Go Up or Down Last Year? Yes, It Did.

Jaybird March 7, 2024

The divergence between the nation’s two crime measures makes it uncertain whether violent crime actually went up...

Opposing Ranked Choice Voting Is Opposing Representative Democracy

Jason Benell March 7, 2024

Ranked Choice Voting ought to be the minimum for a representative democracy. Standing against RCV is a...

The Stranger 2024-03-14 CDT C1071 (01.22.16) Stranger

The Stranger

Clare Briggs March 7, 2024

Who is that man?

Jaybird in reply to Koz on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaSo your opinion on the tariffs is immigration?
Koz in reply to Jaybird on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaHow you feeling about the whole “Republicans are the party of fiscal sanity” thing given the tariffs…
Jaybird in reply to Koz on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaHow you feeling about the whole "Republicans are the party of fiscal sanity" thing given the tariffs…
Koz in reply to Jaybird on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaYeah, you’re right. I didn’t say “Trump is not even lying, he’s going to disappoint you, he’s not go…
Koz in reply to Jaybird on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaHas he shown up recently? I'm still here, barely. In fact, I just submitted a guest post which hopef…
Jaybird on From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?The benchmark that makes sense to me: Can it beat Pokemon? 10-year-olds can beat Pokemon.
Jaybird in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Apparently, a guy went down to the address and, when the lady who lives there came out of his house,…
Dark Matter in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Members of my extended family are homeless or headed there. They make terrible choices because of so…
Jaybird in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The extent to which that thought is comforting compared to "the government is feckless if not malici…
Chris in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025One of the interesting things about homelessness is that we don't want to spend resources on people…